Another program to cut video up with before importing to FCPX?

I've got an hour and a half digital video footage that I only need 4 minutes from. I dont want to import the whole thing into FCPX as it will take for ever and I dont want to use up the space either. So is there a free program (Already built into an iMac perhaps) that I can open the video in and cut the part I need before importing to FCPX?

Something that I can import and export in the exact same format without it compressing etc?

You used to be able to do this very efficiently from within FCP X - but the 10.0.6 update has killed it off.

Andy, what possessed you to say this?!!

It has NEVER been so easy to do this in FCP X as it is now.

I have just imported a one-hour file (deselecting "Copy to Event folder" and all analysis) in seconds, opened in timeline, set an in and an out point in the timeline and exported just the section I wanted.

This is now possible and trivial to do - it USED to be hard, it is now very easy and EFFICIENT.

"Can't you just open it in FCP without creating a new clip, trim it then export a new file?"

This is what I attempted to do, to "Open" it with FCPX. I thought maybe I had missed something and didnt know about this option, but like I said it didnt work.

I dont want to import it into FCPX as it is as I only need a very small piece of footage from it and dont want it additionally cloging up my hard drive with extra copies of the full piece of footage.

I will try MPEG Streamclip Squared 5

Like I said, MPEG Streamclip is probably the fastest, easiest to do this. But it is also possible to do it in FCP X (see my post in response to andynick).

You have to pay attention to the setting called "Copy files to Final Cut Events folder": if that box is checked, FCP X will copy the entire media file; if it is not, it will only create an alias to your media file, which occupies virtually no space at all.

Andy, I may have misunderstood the original question. I took it to mean that the OP had a one hour video *file* - say, a .mov file - and only needed some part of it. The procedure I described certainly is not as simple as importing just a section of the file - a feature that has never been present in FCP X, anyway. But it is now possible, and it wasn't so earlier.

You seem to interpret the OP's question as an "Import from Camera". If so, it is as possible now as it was before.

Still, I don't understand what part has 10.0.6 "killed off". Is it no longer possible to import from a camera archive on disk? AFAICT, FCP X still regards a drive as a camera or a regular drive depending on its content, so at the very least you should be able to wrap your archive as a disk image and still import as if from camera (I am ready to accept that this too may be classified as a workaround). Or I am misunderstanding still?

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